44 students help prepare pre-dawn meal

(Left) About 100 of Kuala Lumpur’s homeless and less fortunate denizens queue up for food being distributed in Jalan Hang Lekiu – one of the three locations.

Just before midnight, while most Malaysians were getting ready for bed, 44 students from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Melaka and Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) gathered at Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, to prepare food for 500 of the less fortunate in the city.

The students had volunteered to host the inaugural “Jom Sahur!”, a weekly event organised by non-government organisation Institut Onn Ja’afar (IOJ), to provide food to Kuala Lumpur’s homeless and underprivileged.